Sadly, Green Lantern Corps has been pushed back a week.  Not sure why, but in the meantime, IGN have put up a preview to tide us over.

Its certainly full of the same kind of manic, character-filled action we’ve come to expect from the GLC title during this event (and event before with the riot on Oa).  Taking place slap bang in the middle of Blackest Night #7, the action picks up just after the various Corps teleport in and the result is chaos as the 7 Corps attack the Black Lanterns, and each other.

Its nice to see John featured in the action.  Its a nice way of working towards his move to permanent cast member of GLC.  It looks like the Xanshi plotline could well be resolved in GLC though, which is a bit jarring, since all its other development was in the Green Lantern title.  Its a similar situation to Peter Tomasi’s Mongul storyline being resolved by Johns over in GL.  Its a bit of a shame the plot threads get picked up in a different book.  Although given the events of Blackest Night, it follows well enough, and I imagine that most readers will be picking up both books at the moment anyway.

The cover shows Ice versus Guy which should be interesting.  Quite a few of these tie-ins have seen these “living” Black Lanterns dealt with in some way, be it freed completely like Connor and Bart, or simply incapacitated like Ollie.  So I have to wonder if Guy (with the help of some of the other Lanterns) will be able to break Nekron’s control of Ice.   My immediate thought is a Star Sapphire tether may be able to help Guy get through to her.  Although using the rings on Ice without severing the connection could be dodgy (although we haven’t seen what effect that would actually have on one of these Black Lanterns).

I’m looking forward to seeing what happens here.  Not forgetting that the variant cover has the Anti-Monitor turning up.  I’m guessing this’ll actually play out as a tease for a larger appearance in Blackest Night #8 (or even picked up in the next issue of Green Lantern), but it’ll be interesting to see what actually happens in this issue.  I’m hoping Ice comes out of it ok.  Her relationship with Guy is a good one, but sadly one that’s been tricky to use due to the characters being in different franchises lately (although I’m not exactly sure where else Ice has been turning up in the DCU).